Fireworks Near Me: Pottstown Area July 4th 2025 Events

POTTSTOWN, PA — Independence Day falls on a Friday in 2025, kicking off a star-spangled three-day weekend packed with fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun in and around Pottstown.

To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July calendar, Patch has put together a guide to what’s going on in Montgomery County and the surrounding areas.

Montgomery County July 4 Festivities For 2025

• 2025 Phoenixville 4th of July Fireworks
• Skippack Village 4th of July Parade and Fireworks
• Upper Merion Annual 4th Of July Celebration
• Pottstown GoFourth Festival
• Norristown 4th of July Fireworks and Parade
• Conshohocken Fireworks Celebration
• Ambler Kiwanis 4th of July Fair
• Limerick 4th of July Fireworks at Waltz Golf Farm
• Lower Providence All American 4th of July Fireworks
  

The annual Pottstown GoFourth festival is set for July 4 at Memorial Park in Pottstown. The event runs from 3 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. with fireworks at the end. The day begins with a Rotary Parade at 10:15 a.m. from Adams Street to Manatawny Street.

Independence Day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. In that document, the 13 original colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.

During the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-Revolutionary celebrations honoring King George III’s birthday were replaced with mock funerals as a symbolic break from the crown.

It was an exciting time in Philadelphia — the Continental Congress voted to break from the crown and, two days later on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the original 13 colonies —New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia — to adopt the Declaration of Independence.

The first annual commemoration of the nation’s independence was in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was ongoing. Fireworks have been part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia.

Today, Americans celebrate with fireworks, parades, concerts, and family gatherings and barbecues. Celebrations, though, predate by centuries the designation of Independence Day as a federal holiday, which didn’t happen until 1941.